Let’s address the misconceptions about Planned Parenthood and their ‘services’

On Friday, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which would have repealed and replaced the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as ObamaCare, and would have defunded Planned Parenthood for a year, was ultimately pulled without a vote. While Planned Parenthood continues to receive federal funding for yet another day, the hysteria and misconceptions spread by America’s abortion giant are also alive and well.

President Donald Trump tweeted about the AHCA on Friday, expressing discontent in Republican House members who planned to vote against it, despite the provision defunding Planned Parenthood.

Many jumped at the chance to criticize Trump and promote Planned Parenthood, pointing to the services the public is led to believe they specialize in. Some even pointed to the myth that abortions make up only 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services, which has been debunked even by the pro-abortion outlet Slate, with Rachael Larimore calling it “The Most Meaningless Abortion Statistic Ever.”

Yet Kevin Dent and Mark Pygas, both men with thousands of followers, chimed in to mislead the public by spreading Planned Parenthood’s 3% falsehood.

@realDonaldTrump The irony is that the entire Freedom is made up of old dudes who don’t know that abortions make up 3% of its operations.

Planned Parenthood’s abortions numbered 323,999 in the most recently reported year, with Planned Parenthood performing close to 35 percent of abortions in the country. As Live Action has explained in the video below, the numbers show that 1 in 8 people who become a client of Planned Parenthood’s get an abortion. To get the deceptive 3 percent, Planned Parenthood divides the 323,999 abortions by all the 9.4 million services they claim to provide, equating a pregnancy test or a single packet of birth control pills with an abortion.

Planned Parenthood’s Taxpayer Money

Another claim, which Mark Pygas made, and which is constantly parroted by Planned Parenthood, is that federal dollars are not legally allowed to go towards abortions. This is technically true, with narrow exceptions, but it’s not the whole story. When Planned Parenthood receives federal funding for their services, money is that much more easily freed up for abortions: it’s the basic economic concept of fungibility. And, if Planned Parenthood has received an increase in federal funding, why is it that their clientele drops, along with their legitimate health care services? Where is all that money going?